Apogee Duet USB Audio Interface for iPad, iPhone and Mac

Overview

The award-winning Apogee Duet combines an audio interface, headphone amp, and MIDI interface that makes it a snap to create professional recordings in any location on your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Mac. Incorporating Apogee's legendary digital audio conversion and world-class mic preamps, Duet is the best way to capture your music with incredible dimension and detail.

Legendary Apogee sound quality

From the mic preamps to the AD/DA converters and the clocking, Duet utilises cutting-edge Apogee technology. With components carefully selected in critical listening tests and a highly efficient circuit design, Duet was built by Apogee engineers to make a difference you can hear.

Full-colour OLED display

Duet's primary visual control center is a full-colour OLED high-resolution display. It gives you clear visual feedback for numerous essential functions, such as metering, numeric value for input and output levels, group, phase, muting, phantom power and Soft Limit indication.

Configurable touch pads

Two configurable touch pads on either side of the multi-function controller knob let you promptly manage such output functions as “mute output," “dim outputs," or “sum to mono.” And there's a drop-down menu that lets you assign each one within Apogee's Maestro iOS and Mac application.

MIDI on iPad

Duet provides a single USB MIDI connection for your CoreMIDI compatible keyboard, synth or DJ controller. On iPad, Duet's MIDI connection allows both Duet and a keyboard or DJ controller to be connected at the same time to the iPad's single 30-pin dock port (or via the Lightning connector using an Apple Lightning to 30-pin adapter).

DC power charges iOS devices

With a direct digital connection and an external power source, Duet is able to charge your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch while you record so you won't experience any interruptions.

System Requirements

Manufacturer Information

Part Number

Mfr. Part Number: DUET-IOS-MAC

UPC or EAN No.: 805676301167

Warranty

Note: Products sold through this website that do not bear the Apple Brand name are serviced and supported exclusively by their manufacturers in accordance with terms and conditions packaged with the products. Apple’s Limited Warranty does not apply to products that are not Apple-branded, even if packaged or sold with Apple products. Please contact the manufacturer directly for technical support and customer service.

Manufacturer Note

Waves Plugin software bundle available for download upon registration at support.apogeedigital.com

Love my Apogee Duet

I absolutely love my Apogee Duet. I have had numerous audio interfaces over the years, and this is by far my favorite. First, it sounds amazing. I sometimes use
I absolutely love my Apogee Duet. I have had numerous audio interfaces over the years, and this is by far my favorite. First, it sounds amazing. I sometimes use it just to listen to music and love it. Second, the design is beautiful. Very Apple-like: simple elegant. Third, it is easy to use. Great integration with a Mac (esp. via the Maestro software). Fourth, the integration of MIDI with the most recent generation is huge—in fact, I sold a previous version and bought this version just for the MIDI. Very handy, esp. when you have a limited number of USB ports. Fifth, very mobile: easy to bring with you for mobile recording. I highly recommend it.

Written by Gregory T from Westerville

17 May, 2016

7 of 7 people found this useful

Is this review useful?Love my Apogee Duet

1.0 out of 5 stars

Not for iPad Pro

Just bought an Apogee Duet for my iPad Pro.
It was a mistake.
First of all, Duet comes without the USB Lightning cable that Apogee recommends.
Whatever con
Just bought an Apogee Duet for my iPad Pro.
It was a mistake.
First of all, Duet comes without the USB Lightning cable that Apogee recommends.
Whatever connector I buy still get the error message “ this device is consuming too much power”.
The Maestro software is just a simulation, not a real controller.
The two devices do not communicate. This is bad, very bad.

Written by Cristian D from Stockholm

6 Mar, 2018

2 of 2 people found this useful

Is this review useful?Not for iPad Pro

3.0 out of 5 stars

First impressions

Connected to ipad no problem - sounded excellent on iTunes.
Took some time to get I maschine playing through it.
Sounds great - massively unstable. Display s
Connected to ipad no problem - sounded excellent on iTunes.
Took some time to get I maschine playing through it.
Sounds great - massively unstable. Display screen freaks out randomly,
Eg showing text backwards, screen switching off.
Changing settings on maestro had varying success.
It seems if you want to change something you need to unplug every time and plug back in.
Lame.
Did I mention it sounds great?
Need to sleep on this one.

Written by francis W from hong kong

14 Apr, 2015

1 of 1 people found this useful

Is this review useful?First impressions

1.0 out of 5 stars

Not for iPad Pro

Just bought an Apogee Duet for my iPad Pro.
It was a mistake.
First of all, Duet comes without the USB Lightning cable that Apogee recommends.
Whatever con
Just bought an Apogee Duet for my iPad Pro.
It was a mistake.
First of all, Duet comes without the USB Lightning cable that Apogee recommends.
Whatever connector I buy still get the error message “ this device is consuming too much power”.
The Maestro software is just a simulation, not a real controller.
The two devices do not communicate. This is bad, very bad.

Written by Cristian D from Stockholm

6 Mar, 2018

2 of 2 people found this useful

Is this review useful?Not for iPad Pro

5.0 out of 5 stars

Love my Apogee Duet

I absolutely love my Apogee Duet. I have had numerous audio interfaces over the years, and this is by far my favorite. First, it sounds amazing. I sometimes use
I absolutely love my Apogee Duet. I have had numerous audio interfaces over the years, and this is by far my favorite. First, it sounds amazing. I sometimes use it just to listen to music and love it. Second, the design is beautiful. Very Apple-like: simple elegant. Third, it is easy to use. Great integration with a Mac (esp. via the Maestro software). Fourth, the integration of MIDI with the most recent generation is huge—in fact, I sold a previous version and bought this version just for the MIDI. Very handy, esp. when you have a limited number of USB ports. Fifth, very mobile: easy to bring with you for mobile recording. I highly recommend it.

Written by Gregory T from Westerville

17 May, 2016

7 of 7 people found this useful

Is this review useful?Love my Apogee Duet

2.0 out of 5 stars

Serious problems with Yosemite and Duet

While I had a very good experience with this product pre-Yosemite, post Yosemite has been very disappointing. It constantly drops out and then has to relocate i
While I had a very good experience with this product pre-Yosemite, post Yosemite has been very disappointing. It constantly drops out and then has to relocate itself, clicks, stutters and will reassign monitoring to different channels at random. It is far from the seamless Apple experience you expect for a $1000 plus sound card. My experience with Apogee support has been less than satisfying and as the product is a year old I am expected to pay a $35 service fee to speak to anyone at Apple about the issues I am having. Until these issues are resolved I could not in good conscience recommend this product.

Answer

Yes, Duet offers connection to two XLR microphones with the two very high quality microphone preamps
Yes, Duet offers connection to two XLR microphones with the two very high quality microphone preamps inside.

Answer

Duet is powered by USB when connected to Mac. On iOS it requires the power adapter and does charge t
Duet is powered by USB when connected to Mac. On iOS it requires the power adapter and does charge the iOS device when connected.

Answer

This is the latest "Duet for iPad and Mac," or the third generation of Duet. It shares the same anal
This is the latest "Duet for iPad and Mac," or the third generation of Duet. It shares the same analog and conversion technology as Duet 2, but adds USB MIDI and iOS functionality.

Apogee Maestro is the control application for MFi compliant Apogee audio interfaces. Maestro lets you access and adjust all features and settings from 5 simple tabs. Maestro also significantly improves latency (the delay that occurs during recording) with a hardware based low latency mixer.